Hawaii Governor: Tsunami could dislodge trees, damage homes, move cars

Manila Bulletin

A tsunami hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia early Wednesday.  Warnings are also in place for Alaska, Hawaii and other coasts south toward New Zealand.  Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said data from Midway Atoll, which is part of the way between Japan and Hawaii, measured tsunami waves from peak to trough of 6 feet (1.8 meters).  He said waves hitting Hawaii could be bigger or smaller and it was too early to tell how large they would be. A tsunami of that size would be akin to a three foot (90 centimeter) wave riding on top of surf, he said.  He told a new conference that a wave that size could move cars and throw fences around. (Video courtesy of KITV via AP)  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com @manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00this would be three-foot wave riding across the top of the surf just I wanted

00:14to remind people this is not just like a wave comes off the shore three-foot

00:19waves smack stab smacks down on the beach this is a longitudinal wave with

00:24jerk with great force driving through the shoreline and into land that's why we

00:31ask people to evacuate very far back people ask if there was a generic way to

00:41describe how far you have to get away from the shoreline to be absolutely safe

00:45it's at least 4,000 feet that's the better part like that's four-fifths of a

00:51mile basically but that first wave will hit around 710 and it could take as

01:02long as 30 minutes for the waves is my understanding to hit other parts of the

01:06islands so we'll be able to give kind of constant updates about where the waves

01:09are as you can imagine there are going to be people out there communicating on

01:14social media again please just stay home

01:21this is about three feet okay but a wave of water that means it can move cars it

01:27will throw fences around if it hits it can dislodge trees that's why you just

01:32can't be out there the impact is at great speed any any structure that gets

01:38loose and strikes an individual could take them out and people can drown quite

01:41easily with the force of that kind of wave so again people have to really

01:46distinguish the waves we are accustomed to on the coast every day versus a tsunami

01:52it's a different beast altogether and of course if it gets much larger they do

01:58anticipate it could be larger that's why they have multiple measurements it's even

02:03more dangerous even more forceful houses will be damaged there will be

02:06debris all over the place if we do get a full tsunami

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